Manipulating calendar dates is an essential aspect of many applications written in Java. Traditionally, developers relied on the java.util.Calendar class to get the ...

Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that this simple assertion is wrong; after all, all of those Servlet and JSP based applications that you wrote ten years ago had no problem moving onto ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language, but there’s more to Java than programming with objects. This tutorial is the first of several introducing non-object-oriented features and syntax that ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...